Once Upon A Time – February 17 – 1876 – Sardines First Canned By Julius Wolff In Eastport, Maine

1568 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II agrees to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire for peace

1865 Columbia in South Carolina burns down during the American Civil War

1876 Sardines first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine

1972 British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market

2017 Discovery of a new mostly underwater continent Zealandia in the South Pacific announced in research journal “GSA Today”

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Today In Film & TV

1938 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)

Today In Music

1904 Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” premieres at La Scala in Milan, Italy

Today In Sport

1955 American golfer Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 (not broken until 2001)

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1936 The world’s first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, makes his first appearance in comics

Famous Weddings

1841 Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d’Oultremont de Wégimont

1906 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice marries in the White House

1950 Natural history broadcaster David Attenborough (24) weds Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel